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" The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. "

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" All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. "

" If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it? "

" There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either. "

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" He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. "

" No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. "

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" By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. "

" The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression. "

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" You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. "

" To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. "